Wed.May 11, 2016

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3 Ways to Stop Women From Getting Vague Feedback in Performance Reviews

Reflektive

“Your communication style is too aggressive.” “You need to strengthen your knowledge of emerging markets.” Which of the above statement is more likely to be found in the performance review of a female employee? According to research on performance feedback by Stanford researchers , women are more likely to receive vague feedback (the former), and men are more likely to hear specific, developmental feedback (the latter).

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The Future of Work Needs Flexible HR Technology: A Look inside Recruiterbox

The Aristocracy of HR

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Beyond Checking a Box: How to Create a Real Employee Engagement Program

Trinet

There is a direct link between employee engagement and organizational performance. Highly engaged employees are vital to creating a quality customer experience and, thus, contribute directly to your. Visit site for full story.

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The ACA: A Gift And A Curse For Uber

ACA Times

In the often-oversimplified world of contractor-based employment, the Affordable Care Act is a blessing in disguise: “employees” can readily obtain health care with the financial burden falling off the “employer.” However, in the case of Uber, this may all change. And the company is not pleased. Last year, Forbes reported that a ruling on behalf of the California Labor Commissioner named Uber drivers as employees of the mobile vehicle enterprise.

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Automate Your Onboarding Process In 7 Steps

Efficient employee onboarding is more than a warm welcome—it's a catalyst for business growth. Automated onboarding transforms new hires into productive team members faster, fostering long-term satisfaction and talent retention. For HR, automation means replacing inefficient manual processes with streamlined, cost-effective operations. Our eBook reveals how automating employee onboarding delivers these benefits, reducing HR challenges and elevating new employee readiness.

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What is #GCS25?

nettime solutions

Join the nettime solutions team along side 1800+ other HR professionals who will also be attending the HR Houston's 25th annual Gulf Coast Symposium on May 11th - 13th, 2016. Be sure to stop by the nettime booth 300 to learn about improving your workforce management systems. What is #GCS25? Each year, HR Houston hosts an annual conference known as the Gulf Coast Symposium for the local HR Professionals.

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Company culture: Where should it come from?

Achievers

Having a positive company culture is an essential part of fostering engagement among employees, and it also directly influences a company’s “productivity, creativity, value and growth rates,” according to Columbia Business School professor Shiva Rajgopal. Although the essential value of company culture is undisputed, the question remains of who should initiate it: Should it come from top executives and trickle down?

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People Equation Quick Hits: Learning Nuggets from #WorkHuman 2016

The People Equation

For the past three days, I’ve been immersed in Globoforce’s WorkHuman conference. Have you ever been to a conference that was so amazing, you feel like you’re literally bursting at the seams with all the ideas? Yeah, that’s how I am right now, two hours after the conference wrapped. Watch for detailed coverage in the weeks ahead. For now, here are some quick hit ideas that I’ve gleaned from the various speakers: From Michelle Gielan, Positive Psychology researcher.

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CAPITALIST WEBINAR: What Game of Thrones Can Teach HR About Coaching Styles and Building Teams!!!

The HR Capitalist

Oh yeah - you've been thinking it was coming, right? Well, it's here. . A FOT webinar mashing HR stuff with Game of Thrones. Curious what we can learn from Jon Snow about coaching malcontents in your organization? Wondering how you can build a great team like the mother of dragons when you started with no FTE's? “Winter is Coming.” “You Win or You Die.

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5 Tips for Dealing with a Micromanaging Boss

The People Equation

People love to toss around the term “micromanager,” but what does that really mean? And, can having a boss that’s super-involved ever be a good thing? These are the issues I explore in my post over at the Café Quill site, called: Feeling Micromanaged? Turn it to Your Advantage. I offer five tips for effectively dealing with a micromanaging boss, plus a way to look at the situation in a positive light.

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Modernizing Hiring: The Rise of Contingent Recruitment in 2024

The job market is changing fast, and to stay ahead, your hiring strategy needs to be flexible. With recent economic shifts, more companies are turning to contingent workers for their adaptability and cost savings. In fact, 32% of businesses are already prioritizing contingent over traditional full-time positions. Curious to learn more? In our new guide, you'll discover: The major benefits of incorporating contingent workers into your team.

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5 Attributes Of A World-Class Workforce

TalentCulture

There’s a technology-driven revolution happening in HR these days. It’s called self-service and it gives employees more power over their careers. In a nutshell, self-service gives people control over many functions that used to be handled by HR. With a private log-in, employees can now manage their own payroll and retirement plans, request time-off and other schedule adjustments, book on-line courses and other learning and development tools, engage and be social with colleagues on intranets, and

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6 Tips for Creating Great Employer Branding Content

Workology

A few weeks ago, I received an unassuming white box in the mail. Upon opening it, I discovered a plastic fortune cookie which inside read: We predict you have a content problem. How many of you feel or have felt there’s a problem with your employer branding content—albeit quality, quantity, frequency, or ROI? Please know you’re not alone. In fact, according to a Harris Interactive Survey for Glassdoor , “67% of employers believe retention rates would be higher if candidates had a clearer picture

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Be The Influencer You Admire

TalentCulture

“You can never really live anyone else’s life, not even your child’s. The influence you exert is through your own life, and what you’ve become yourself.” – Eleanor Roosevelt. Influencer. This is a word bandied about quite a bit. It’s usually associated with someone in a leadership, management or pop culture position.

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8 Ways To End Indecision Decisively

WorqIQ

In this increasingly do-more-with-less business world, we can’t afford to let our employees be more or less checked out. And yet an astonishing 70% are just that, disengaged at work, according to Gallup polls. It’s almost impossible not to disengage when toiling in the paralysis of indecision. It’s hard to imagine anything more meaning and motivation-draining, more bereft of a sense of significance, or anything simply more frustrating.

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The Essential Performance Review Checklist

Performance reviews are a proactive way to engage with your employees, provide clear communication about expectations, and acknowledge them for their hard work. But getting the right framework and creating consistency across your organization can be tricky. We put together this checklist to help you evaluate your current performance review process and equip managers with the right tools to perform individual assessments.

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my company wants to sponsor me for a service dog, but I’m not sure I should accept

Ask a Manager

A reader writes: I’m a middle manager (of justice!) at a company I love, in an industry I love. I’ve also been struggling with several out-of-the-blue disabilities for the last couple of years, although I am at a place where my treatments are doing all they can, so I may be able to return to work possibly full-time … if I have a service dog, due to the nature of one of my disabilities.

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Ep 79 – How Recruiters Can WOW Candidates at College Career Fairs

Workology

Even though we are living in a digital world, career and job fairs remain an effective way for talent acquisition and recruiting leaders to engage candidates. A 2015 survey by Nicole Dessain, the co-author of Handbook of Human Resources Management found that 84% of respondents participated in university career fairs. Episode 79: How To Wow Candidates at Career & Job Fairs with Kim Hollenshead ( @kimhollenshead ).

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See Me, Feel Me

NoExcusesHR

Leadership Vision "An essential means for focusing attention on what matters most; what you want to accomplish in your life and what kind of leader you wish to be. A useful vision has to be rooted in your past, address the future, and deal with today's realities. It represents who you are and what you stand for." They Can't See It I had the privilege to hear Steve Pemberton , Vice President of Diversity and Inclusion for Walgreens this week at the work human conference in Orlando, Florida.

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Millions of “White Collars” Will Soon Become Hourly Workers

TLNT: The Business of HR

The U.S. Department of Labor is expected to soon issue a final rule that will make significant changes to the requirements for classifying “white collar” employees as “exempt” under the Fair Labor Standards Act.

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An HR Leaders Guide: 7 Questions To Ask When Developing Your Cancer Strategy

As HR and Benefits leaders are in the midst of evaluating cancer care solutions and designing their requirements for vendors, it’s key to know what questions to ask to ensure the development of a truly comprehensive strategy: from prevention to diagnosis to treatment to survivorship. Getting to the right answers starts with asking the right questions: How can better access improve engagement?

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Diversity and Skills: The Importance of Hiring Military Veterans

TalentCircles

While the unemployment rate for veterans has been declining over the last few years, many are still struggling to find civilian jobs. This seems to stem from both the veterans themselves not feeling adequately prepared to make the transition from military to mainstream, and from employers thinking that many of the skills acquired during military service don’t translate to the civilian labor force.

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Help Employees Make the Most of Pre-Tax Deductions

Paycor

Pre-tax deductions are deductions applied to an individual’s gross income, thereby decreasing the amount of wages upon which local, state and federal taxes will be owed. In addition to income tax liabilities, pre-tax deductions also decrease a worker’s required contributions to Medicare and Social Security. One goal of making certain payments pre-tax is to provide incentive for people to plan ahead for various life events, such as retirement and medical expenses.

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What Your Company Must Do to Succeed Digitally

45 Things

A recent survey of 2,000 business and technology executives by PwC finds that that there is a direct link between digital investment and corporate performance. Specifically, the report finds that digital leaders are twice as likely to achieve more rapid revenue and profit growth as the “laggards” in the study. These digital leaders are “more deliberate” in their digital strategy, the report finds, and also show a greater CEO commitment, a strategic clarity and a broad view when it comes to apply

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How the World of Work is Changing [Infographic]

WorqIQ

As we continue to move through advancements, legislative changes, social changes and different initiatives what will the world of work look like for future generations. Read More» The post How the World of Work is Changing [Infographic] appeared first on Switch & Shift.

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AI & DEI: With Great Opportunities Comes Great HR Responsibility

Speaker: Jen Kirkwood - Partner, Responsible HR & AI at IBM and World Economic Forum Executive Fellow

The promise of AI for today’s organizations is real, yet in a frenzied state of experimentation, many stumble to get to a full-scale enterprise. As companies race to discover what generative AI can do, HR must lead conversations about how to balance cutting-edge innovations with integrity, trust, and diversity. Globally, organizations are at a critical intersection of Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and AI acceleration.

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The Latest HR Technology Trends for 2016

Paychex

Get the highlights from a new report by the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) that reveals some of 2016's most important technology trends for HR directors and managers.

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The Real Crux of Our Conversation

Dave's Weekly Thought

"One's greatest fear in professional life is to be in a position of having energy and ambition but no applicable skills" - Anonymous I have the good fortune of working with people of every age: I coach kids, counsel college men and interact professionally with people from 25 - 75 years old on a daily basis. There is a wonderment in the youth that also exists in people who are 75 years old.

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I Am a Millennial, and I Want to Tell You What I think.

Lumesse

I Am a Millennial, and I Want to Tell You What I think. Published date: May 11, 2016 Home. Meet our Bloggers. About Us. Contact Us. email. facebook. linkedin. twitter. google+. “Millennials are having a positive impact on our culture, workplace and government and we should recognize them for their efforts and support them so they are able to help revive the economy and build a better world.

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EMPOWER 2016- Helm Incorporated Reduces $250,000 in Administration Cost with QuickBase

Quickbase

Over the past five years, Helm has transformed every aspect of its business using QuickBase, eliminating thousands of spreadsheets and hundreds of thousands of emails.

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Early Tenure Turnover: Stop the Revolving Door of Hires

Speaker: Dr. Craig Ellis, Head of I-O Psychology, HighMatch

Are you facing a revolving door of hires, especially within their first 90 days of employment? In this webinar, Dr. Craig Ellis, a leading industrial-organizational (I-O) psychologist, offers insights and strategies to unravel the mystery behind early tenure turnover. Identify the root causes of early attrition to mitigate turnover’s impact in the first 12 months.

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Using Social Good as an Employee Perk

Acacia HR Solutions

One of the challenges facing small businesses and especially startups is finding the right mix of benefits and perks to offer that will attract talent and not break the bank. It’s hard to always know what will be competitive in the market place, but more and more, employees are looking for perks that help with.

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I’m the 8th HR Manager in 2 Years

Evil HR Lady

I am actually an HR professional (PHR & SHRM-CP), but I’m in a scenario I’ve never experienced, there’s a meeting tomorrow, and I am not sure what to do. 1. I’m currently employed through a temp agency on a 16-week contract. I’m halfway through the contract. 2. It is a family owned business. The owner and his wife are the top two individuals.

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as a manager, do I need to hide my stress from my employees?

Ask a Manager

A reader writes: I work a fairly high-stress management position at a regional theater company. It’s the kind of position that comes with frequent six-day weeks, not a huge paycheck, a lot of customer interface, and the responsibility of a regularly shifting staff of seasonal employees. I’m young for the position, but certainly qualified and hard-working.

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